These are giddy days for golf course junkies, with headline happenings unfolding coast to coast.
In Connecticut, Yale Golf Course is back in business, its C.B. Macdonald/Seth Raynor gem freshly burnished by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner. Out west, meanwhile, that same duo is redoing Spanish Bay, while down in Orange County, Brian Curley is revamping all 36 holes at Pelican Hill.
Almost anywhere you turn, a marquee project is underway. Candyroot Lodge in the Carolinas. River Ranch Golf Resort in Washington State. In the high plains outside Denver, Rodeo Dunes, the latest from Sand Valley co-developer Michael Keiser, opens this month, nearly half a year ahead of its Texas sibling, Wild Spring Dunes, which is slated for a grand opening this fall.
But the news is not confined to American soil. Cross the border into British Columbia, and buzz is building at Cabot Revelstoke. First announced in late 2020, the project has been progressing in the relative quiet befitting a luxe alpine resort, tucked into the folds of the Monashee and Selkirk mountain ranges, in a town long known as a magnet for heliskiing.
And soon to lay claim to destination golf. Word broke this week: Preview play at Cabot Revelstoke will begin this fall.
The resort’s namesake 18-holer was designed by Alberta native Rod Whitman of Whitman, Axland & Cutten, who played a central role in Cabot’s origin story. He was the architect of the developer’s first course, Cabot Links, which opened in 2012 on Cape Breton Island, back when the brand’s global ambitions were still taking shape. Since then, Cabot has spread its reach to Florida, St. Lucia, Scotland and beyond. Revelstoke is its first foray into the mountains.
The routing runs along a ridge above the Columbia River, weaving around creeks, cliffs and rock outcroppings, with long views of the surrounding peaks. Whitman has spoken of the site’s kinship with the mountain courses at Banff and Jasper designed by the Golden Age giant Stanley Thompson, Canada’s most celebrated golf course architect. The resort’s plans also call for a par-3 course, the Railyard, its name a nod to Revelstoke’s history as a late-19th-century spoke: the trains, essentially, put the place on the map. These days, a lot of people fly in, and not just on helicopters dropping them into powder. Kelowna International Airport is two hours away.
Along with limited fall preview play, Cabot also announced a timeline for a 155-room lodge, slated to open in early 2027, along with updated real estate offerings: four-bedroom residences starting at $7.6 million Canadian. More information is available here.
